Title: My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, with the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy Author: Cook, Dr. Frederick A. Place: New York Publisher: Polar Publishing Co. Date: 1911 Description: xx, [2], 604 pp. Illustrated with 32 plates from photographs, including the frontispiece. 10x7½, original brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. Cook presents here his side of the controversy over who first reached the North Pole, or reached it at all, a compelling narrative which proved insufficient to counter the accolades gathered by Peary. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers quite clean and unworn; short crease and tear to fore-edge of first 6 pages, else fine. Item number: 172908
Title: My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, with the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy Author: Cook, Dr. Frederick A. Place: New York Publisher: Polar Publishing Co. Date: 1911 Description: xx, [2], 604 pp. Illustrated with 32 plates from photographs, including the frontispiece. 10x7½, original brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition. Cook presents here his side of the controversy over who first reached the North Pole, or reached it at all, a compelling narrative which proved insufficient to counter the accolades gathered by Peary. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers quite clean and unworn; short crease and tear to fore-edge of first 6 pages, else fine. Item number: 172908
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